Mop



Jan. 21, 1930. c. L. FLOYD 1,744,072

MOP

Filed April 7, 1928 Patented Jan. 21, 1930 STATES CHARLES L. FLOYD, OF OAK PARK, ILLINOIS Application filed April 7, 1928.

My invention relates to a combined mop and wringer construction whereby the wet mop-fabric may be easily and quickly dried by use of the associated wringer structure.

In order to enable those acquainted with this art to fully understand the invention both from functional and structural standpoints, in the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, a present preferred embodiment of the invention has been illustrated in detail, and, for simplicity, the same reference characters have been used for like parts throughout the several views.

In this drawing,

Fig. 1 is an edge elevation of the mop;

Fig. 2 is a similar view, illustrating the wringing action; and

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the mop with one handle detached from the mop-fabric and raised, the fabric being permitted to drop, and being shown fragmentarily.

Referring to this drawing, it will be perceived that the novel appliance includes an elongated, round handle 11 fitted at its lower J end with a head composed of a pair of oppositely-bent bars or arms 12, 12 having adjacent ends 13, 13 accommodated in a terminal slot 14 in the handle, the extreme, lower end of the latter being fitted with a suitable confining ferrule 15.

The two spaced, bracket bars 12, 12 have bearings for the revoluble shaft 16 of a wringer-roller 17, and the shaft 18 of the parallel, companion corrugated-roller 19 is rotatable in slots of a pair of slides 21, 21, such slots also accommodating the shaft 16 and the inturned guiding lugs 22 forming integral parts of the arms 12, 12, rocking or turning of the slides around the shaft 16 being prevented by inwardly-bent, confining fingers 23, 23 on each arm 12 overlapping the opposite edges of the correlated slide.

The fabric mop-material 24: extends between the two wringer-rollers l7 and 19, and has centrally-apertured, metal. binding-strips 25, 25 firmly attached to its opposite ends, the pair of rollers normally squeezing the fabric between them by reason of a pair of coiled springs 26, 26 attached to the slides and taking around the bars as illustrated.

Serial No. 268,100.

The spring pressure on the outer, bodilymovable roller 19 may be released and the two rollers separated sufliciencly for the re moval of the fabric mop-material and the replacement of new material therefor by mere ly swinging the coiled springs down around the corners of the bent bars, thus temporarily eliminating their yielding holding action un til restored to their normal operating positions.

Longitudinal, parallel grooves 27, 27 are provided in the surface of the handle 11, 180 .apart, or directly opposite one another, such pair of grooves slidingly receiving marginal, inturned lips of two guides 28, 28, each extended half way around the outside of the handle 11 and each having a handle 29 and its hook 31 riveted or otherwise secured thereto, such hooks being designed to take in the holes of the end binding strips 25 of the fabric.

When in use such fabric is practically all at one side of the two wringer-rollers, as shown in Fig. l, and the mop as a whole is manipulated in the usual way to perform its 7 cleaning function.

When, however, it is desired to wring the mop material, the operator slides that one of the two handles connected to the relativelyshort section of the fabric (the left-hand handle in Fig. 1) upwardly along the mop handle 11, thereby drawing the greater part of the fabric between the springpressed rollers and effecting the wringing operation, somewhat otherwise than as is usual in those constructions wherein the material to be wrung is caused to feed between the rollers, due to the direct, manual turning of the latter.

In this new appliance, the wringer-rollers revolve, but their rotation is due to or caused by the travel of the fabric which is being pulled through between them.

The cloth or other material having been drawn through between the rollers as far as permitted, the operator allows the manip- 9 ulated handle to slide down to the bottom of the mop-handle 11, and the mop is again ready for further use, the fabric now being practically all at the side of the rollers opposite that at which it was previously.

The next wringing operation would be performed by pulling upwardly on the other sliding wringer-hamlle 29, thus pulling the cloth between the rollers in the opposite direction and leaving it there during the succeeding mopping operation and until the next wringing action is required.

Thus the fabric or cloth is first drawn or pulled in one direction by one handle, be tween the rollers, and then in the opposite direction by the other handle, and so on alternately, withthe successive wringing operations.

In this patent one embodiment only of the invention has been presented in detail, and it is to be remembered that many, minor, mechanical changes may be incorporated in the structure without departure from the heart and essence of the invention as defined by the appended claims, and without the loss of any of its material benefits and advantages.

The lower wringer-roller 19 in the present embodiment of the invention is roughened or corrugated to enable itto hold more firmly when it is used on top of the otherwise free part of the mop fabric to rub the latter tirmly back and forth on the floor to secure a great pressure to wipe oil some dirt which adheres to the floor particularly tenaciously, but, of course, this roller may be smooth if preferred.

I claim:

1. In a mop, the combination of a mophandle, a head fixed thereon, wringing-rollers on said head, a mop-fabric between said rollers, and a pair of handles attached to the opposite ends of said fabric and means slidably mounting said pair of handles on said mop-handle for longitudinal movement along the latter, whereby said fabric by the sliding of said handles may be pulled in opposite directions between said rollers to efiect the wringing operations, said handles being guided by said mop-handle throughout sub stantially the entire wringing action.

2. In a mop, the combination of a longitudinally-grooved mop-handle, a head for said handle, wringing-rollers on said head, a mopfabric between said rollers and having binding strips across its ends, wringing-handles slidable along said mop-handle, means in said grooves guiding said wringing-handles, and means detachably connecting said wringinghandles to said binding strips, whereby by sliding said wringing-handles along said mop-handle said fabric may be pulled in opposite directions through said rollers to effect the wringing operations.

3. In a mop, the combination of a longitudinallv-grom'ed 1nophandle, a head for said handle having end portions disposed substantially at right angles to the main body of the head, a wringer-roller revolubly mounted in said head, slides in said head, a second wringer-roller revolubly mounted in said hand.

CHARLES L. FLOYD. 

